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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-5836: libplist security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 3, 2017
Added
Dec 18, 2019
Modified
Apr 1, 2026

Description

The plist_free_data function in plist.c in libplist allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors involving an integer node that is treated as a PLIST_KEY and then triggers an invalid free.

Solution

huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-libplist
Title
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